{"id":1175,"date":"2015-05-12T00:32:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T00:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1175"},"modified":"2015-05-12T00:32:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T00:32:20","slug":"emor-5775","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1175","title":{"rendered":"Emor (5775)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drash Cards for Emor (5776)<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n

\u2022 Today we read Ch 22, v17 \u2013 Ch 23:22 about the Moedim and the Omer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rav Solevetchik said that \u2018mo-ed\u2019 does not mean festival. Rather it means appointment.<\/p>\n

\u2022The Israelites traveled from Egypt through the desert to make appointment at Sinai.<\/div>\n

\u2022At the time of the Temple, the Jews counted 7 weeks from the day after the 15th<\/sup> of Nissan, to bring the ‘new offering’.<\/p>\n

\u2022 What do we do? We count the omer. Why?<\/p>\n

\u2022The Alter Rebbe interpreted \u201cyou must count\u201d (Usfartem [Ch 23, v 15]) as \u201cYou must make yourselves bright \u2013 you must work on yourself\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022The counting of the omer helps this because each day we associate a major Sefirah and one minor Sefirah within it.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Each of the sefirot has an inner emotion associated with it<\/p>\n

Chesed == Love<\/p>\n

Gevurah == Fear<\/p>\n

Tiferet == Mercy, empathy<\/p>\n

Netzach == Confidence<\/p>\n

Hod == Sincerity<\/p>\n

Yesod == Truth<\/p>\n

Malchut == Humility<\/p>\n

\u2022Today is Malchut b\u2019Hod: we are developing humility within sincerity<\/p>\n

\u2022When we count the omer, we are on a path of self improvement \u2013 heading towards our appointment on Shavuout.<\/p>\n

\u2022On a Yom-tov, the appointment is in God\u2019s house and we are to travel there \u2014 to the Temple \u2014 and bring a gift \u2014 as every good guest should do<\/p>\n

\u2022But of course we have weekly appointments (Shabbat) with God and even daily appointments (Shachrit, Mincha, Maariv)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Formal appointments are great but the relationship is best when one can drop in any time.<\/p>\n

\u2022Imagine the world we\u2019d have if we behaved as if we knew that the Sechinah could drop in on us at any time.<\/p>\n

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Drash Cards for Emor (5776) by Marc Mangel \u2022 Today we read Ch 22, v17 \u2013 Ch 23:22 about the Moedim and the Omer. \u2022 Rav Solevetchik said that \u2018mo-ed\u2019 does not mean festival. Rather it means appointment. \u2022The Israelites traveled from Egypt through the desert to make appointment at Sinai. \u2022At the time of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1175","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1175\/revisions\/1176"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}